Colchester

Group run

Paint gonna lie, we had an egg-cellent time

20 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help their local community in Colchester.

  • Colchester runner
  • James Poole
  • Angela Isherwood
  • Dan Norkett
  • David Isherwood
  • Michelle-Yoda Lewington
  • Tav
  • Hannah Grinham
  • Christina Grimwade
  • Emily E
  • Tommy Bond
  • Beth Nelson
  • Bob Thompson
  • Colchester runner
  • Louise
  • Vanessa Crannis
  • Ella Jeffries
  • Kate
  • Frances Gwyther
  • Carl Bullen
 
Wednesday, 11th of April 2018
 
Led by Colchester runner

It's no yolk, this evening's run was egg-ceptional! First we welcomed our newest hatchling to the group, little Allegra - it was great to see David and Angela, too. Angela was egg-stremely impressed with how much the group has been growing recently. We also welcomed Kate to the group, joining us for her first Goodgym outing, and Beth visiting from GG Wandsworth.

Congratulations were given to those that attended the Little Bromley 10k on Sunday and well done to Ian and Susie for getting egg-cellent PBs.

After a quick game of knee-tag to get ourselves warmed up we made our way to Firstsite, with Ian leading at the front and Michelle back marking.

Upon arrival, Eddie greeted us and was egg-static about the number of GGers there to help. We made our way to the room we would be painting, but as there was such a good turn out, Eddie hatched a new plan and opened up a second room to be painted, but in a slightly different shade of white! We scrubbed, we sanded, we painted and we rolled and Eddie was left shell shocked at the amount of work we were able to get done in such a short amount of time, a task he wouldn't have been able to get done on his own. Once tidied up, many of us enjoyed a cup of tea before heading outside for some egg-ercise in preparation for the upcoming Goodgym Olympics.

We started with a 'Not-quite-100m Sprints' and then moved on to what we were really egg-cited about... egg and spoon racing! We raced forwards, we raced backwards and we even hopped, but there were very few eggs dropped. Watch out Goodgym Olympic area teams, you have competition! That said, I saw a few people cheat at egg 'n' spoon, but omlettin' it slide...

After that some of the group peeled off to enjoy some egg fried rice and other delicious non-egg based foods at the Noodle Bar, whilst the rest of us made our way back to Leisure World.

Many thanks to our egg-spert punners Ella, Tav and Fay, for giving fine egg-samples of puns, it was egg-sactly the egg-stravagence this report need!

As always, it was an egg-cellent evening Rollin' with my homies...!

What's the verdict, would one egg pun have been un oeuf?

Report written by Colchester runner


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Colchester runner
Colchester runner
Thursday April 12th, 2018 09:01

Good report Chrissie

Vanessa Crannis
Vanessa Crannis
Thursday April 12th, 2018 09:17

Thanks Chrissie for leading a great task force. All those scrambled words make a funny read + all punners need to be careful to coddle their ideas so they are not poached!

Ed Field
Ed Field
he/him
Thursday April 12th, 2018 09:20

Some great punning action here. I am in awe. Well done!

Fay Sibley
Fay Sibley
Thursday April 12th, 2018 11:57

As hard as I fry I can't resist a good pun! Great report!

Ella Jeffries
Ella Jeffries
She/her
Thursday April 12th, 2018 14:58

Cracking all round!!

Ivo
Ivo
he/him
Thursday April 12th, 2018 18:28

Welcome Allegra!

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